The article addresses the problem of standardizing comfort and safety of the city’s living environment as an effective mechanism for regulating the anthropogenic impact on the environment. A review of publications was carried out, as well as an analysis of the experience of developing the Russian regulatory framework affecting scientific and technical issues of ensuring the safety and comfort of the city’s living environment. A classification is presented and an analysis of the requirements contained in various legal, regulatory and methodological documents, as well as standards of quality of living, is carried out. A review of the methodological documents on the assessment of the quality of the living environment of the city. The conclusion is drawn about the need to create a full-fledged, not fragmented structure of technical regulation of capital construction and spatial arrangement of the territory, corresponding to its social significance and the degree of influence on the development of the country's economy, content and organization of work in this field of activity. The research results can be used in the development of the future code of rules “A comfortable and safe living environment of the city. General positions.”